THE BREN SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT Presents
Scott Taylor
Friday, May 16, 2008 "Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison" Part of the 2007-2008 seminar series in Environmental & Natural Resource Economics
Biography M. Scott Taylor received his Ph.D. from Queen's University in 1991. In 1992 he became an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at University of British Columbia, was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 1995, and became a full professor in 1998. In 1998 he moved to the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and visited Princeton under the IES fellowship programn 2002. In 2004 he became a Canadian Research Chair in International, Energy, and Environmental Economics at the University of Calgary. He is an associate editor for the Journal of International Economics and the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, a faculty researcher at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a former scholar in the Economic Growth Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He is a member of both the American and Canadian Economic Associations. In 2003, Princeton University Press published his book (with Brian R. Copeland) Trade and the Environment: Theory and Evidence. His work investigates the links between international trade, economic growth, and the environment. Abstract In the 16th century, North America was home to 25 million to 30 million buffalo; by the late 19th century, fewer than 100 remained. While removing the buffalo east of the Mississippi took settlers over 100 years, the remaining 10 to 15 million buffalo on the Great Plains were killed in a punctuated slaughter in little more than 10 years. I employ theory, data from international trade statistics, and first-person accounts to argue that the slaughter on the plains was initiated by a foreign-made innovation and fueled by a foreign demand for industrial leather. Ironically, the ultimate cause of this sad chapter in American environmental history was of European, not American, origin. _______________________________________________________________________
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